Editor's Note

I've decided to let our Fall issue speak for itself, rather than try and sell you on our amazing assortment of fiction, flash, essays, and poetry. Thanks so much for providing such stiff competition this time in what we chose to accept; the decision was not easy. We're definitely excited that Baltimore writer Eric D. Goodman meditates on his five favorite Johns in this issue's High Five. We also have two featured artists in this issue instead of one: Elizabeth Crisman from here in Charm City and Peter Schwartz, who you may know from the online journal Mad Hatter's Review. Crisman's collages and Schwartz's paintings take vastly different approaches—Crisman process resembles a meditative and sometimes cereberal exercise whereas Schwartz's painting are raw, colorful, textural surfaces full of myth and symbolism and emotion. Yet their differences aren't so vast; they both appreciate planes and space and contrasts.

Stay tuned for the JMWW Anthology Volume Two, coming out in January, if the stars align. Thanks for all your submissions. We'll be contacting our chosen authors and poets soon and will provide details about our launch party—we hope everyone can attend.

Finally, we will be at the 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair on October 20th and 21st here in Baltimore and also Baltimore Writer's Conference on November 17th. Stop by and say hello and pick up a copy of the first anthology if you haven't gotten one (a real steal at $5). I'll also be selling copies of my short fiction collection, Close Encounters. And, if you have a talent, offer it up: we're still looking for help with web design, marketing, and warm bodies to attend conferences and festivals and all the places we need to be to get the message out.

But the message speaks for itself, really. Read this issue and you'll see what I mean.

Jen Michalski, Editor